“NASA contractors want retraction from Justice Department”: The Washington Post has a news update that begins, “Contractors working for NASA are calling on Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal to retract statements made last week to the Supreme Court regarding which agency facilities the contractors can access with their identification badges.”

“Justice Thomas and His Wife”: This editorial appears today in The New York Times.

“Supreme Court weighs whether parents can sue vaccine makers; Congress set up a fund years ago to compensate parents whose children suffered bad side effects; judges have said that law bars lawsuits against manufacturers”: David G. Savage will have this article Wednesday in The Los Angeles Times.

Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has a news update headlined “Justices divided on allowing lawsuits in childhood vaccine cases.”

In Wednesday’s edition of USA Today, Joan Biskupic will have an article headlined “Case tests vaccine court vs. state-law claims.”

The Washington Times has a news update headlined “Supreme Court considers consequences in vaccine case.”

Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor reports that “Supreme Court appears split by infant vaccination case; The Supreme Court hears arguments in a lawsuit filed against the manufacturer of a vaccine that left a 6 month old girl developmentally impaired.”

Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal reports that “High Court Superstars Take Shots in Vaccine Case.”

Bill Mears of CNN.com reports that “High court divided over vaccine safety appeal.”

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Vaccine Makers Get Mixed Reception From U.S. Justices.”

Reuters reports that “Confused Supreme Court to decide on vaccine suits.”

And this evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered” contained an audio segment entitled “Supreme Court Hears Case On Vaccine Lawsuits” featuring Nina Totenberg.

“Feds appeal Mass. rulings against US marriage law”: The Associated Press has this report.

Bloomberg News reports that “U.S. Appeals Ruling That Threw Out Defense of Marriage Act.”

Reuters reports that “Obama administration appeals gay marriage ruling.”

And at his “Under the Radar” blog at Politico.com, Josh Gerstein has a post titled “Obama admin. appeals DOMA ruling.”

“High court hears case about vaccine side effects”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.

Update: You can access the transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Bruesewitz v. Wyeth, Inc., No. 09-152, by clicking here.

“D.C. Circuit Pick Discloses Income, Political Contacts”: David Ingram has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

“Court to rule on child interviews”: Lyle Denniston has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

And at the “School Law” blog of Education Week, Mark Walsh has a post titled “Justices to Weigh Police Questioning at School.”

“Collar bomb trial set to begin in Erie”: Today in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Paula Reed Ward has an article that begins, “More than seven years after a ghastly crime in Erie caught the world’s attention, the final defendant in the case is scheduled to go on trial this week. Jury selection in the case against Marjorie Diehl Armstrong, 61, accused of being the mastermind in a plot in which a man wearing a collar bomb was used in a bank robbery, begins Tuesday.”

Yesterday’s edition of The Erie Times-News reported that “Diehl-Armstrong trial likely to reveal mysteries of ‘pizza bomber’ case.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Trial starting in bizarre Pa. collar-bomb case.”

Access online today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: It is available at this link. The Court today granted review in six cases and requested the views of the Solicitor General in one case. In addition, the Court will schedule oral argument in due course on an exception to the Special Master’s First Interim Report in an original jurisdiction case.

In Weise v. Casper, No. 10-67, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg issued an opinion dissenting from the denial of certiorari, in which opinion Justice Sonia Sotomayor joined.

In early news coverage, The Associated Press has reports headlined “Court: Do in-school interviews require warrants?“; “Court: Does terrorism law apply to jealous wife“; “Court sends back Buddhist temple killing case“; “Court won’t reconsider tax targeting nude bars“; “Court rejects appeal of 2 ejected from Bush event“; and “Court won’t stop hormone replacement lawsuits.”